Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1887-06-03
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


Peach leaves pounded to q pulp
and applied TO bruisc or wound from
u rusty nail or simple cut will give
immediate relief.
The largest possible increase at the
least cost should he the rule, and upon
this depends the turning point between
profit and loss in farming. National
VietD.
When you wash your trees use q
cloth. On old ones stiff scrub-brush
is better, as it will dislodgc insects that
have taken up quarters beneath the
scales of bark.
There is no doubt but hardwood
floors should be used in crcamcries
when stone tagging, carefully cement
ed, can not be had. Thoroughly sea-
sonod maple is one of the bost.
Velvet wears better if brushed
with hat brus by pressing down into
the nap and then turning the brush as
on an axis to llirt out the lint. Do not
brush backward or forward. Indian
apOliS Journal.
Mover put milk, fat or any oily
substance into the ear for the relief of
pain, for they soon become rancid and
tend to incito inflammation. Simple
warm water will answer the purpose
better than any thing else.
"A "scrub" isan animal that is poorly
kept and badly neglected; most beasts,
by liberal feeding and shelter without
negligence, can be converted into
"bluc-bloods, )" or at least into animals
rs good rs "blue- -bloods. Farm Jour
nal.
Steamed Oatmcal Half-pint ont-
meal, one tcaspoonful of salt; put in
two-quart basin and pour over it one
quart of boiling water; put in a steamer
and steam two hours. Do not remove
the cover during that time-BoSton
Budgct.
Indian Breakfast Cake: Two cups
of sour milk, teaspoonful of soda, two
tablcspoonfuls of sugar or molasses, q
little salt, an even cup of flour, and
meal enough to make not too thick
batter. Bake fifteen minutes in quick
ovcn.-F'drm, Field and Stochmdn.
In Wisconsin, fourteen sheep coun-
ties, out of sixty-thrcc in all, show
valuation in farming lands eighty per
cent. above the other parts of the State.
These figures show the tendency of
sheep husbandry to improve farming
lands, and consequently enhance their
market value.
Attend to the comfort of the poul-
try, providing dust baths and a variety
of food. Corn burnt on the cob and
the refuse, which consists almost en-
tirely of the grains reduced to charcoal
and still retaining their perfect shape,
if placed before chickens, is greedily
eaten by them Cincinnati Times.
White Layer Cake: One and one
half cups of sugar, two and one-half
cups of flour, one scant half cup of but
ter, onc-half cup of sweet milk, three
tcaspoonfuls of baking powder, or one
half tcaspoonful of soda and whites of
four eggs. This makes three layers.
Use with jelly, frosting or chocolate.
Please try this rccipc.-Household.
"A correspondent of the Farmer
advises farmers to try to feed all the
grain they can pay for. Then their
lands will DO constantly increasing in
fertility. He believes that feeding
pigs of good breeds will pay good
interest on the capital invested, even
where all the food is purchased, but
when pigs are fed largely on skinned
milk, from dairy farm, the profits are
really liberal.
Twenty years ago, says corre-
spondent, planted vines in my yard,
where | had to do great deal of filling
in, and the material employed was
principally coal ashes. Wherever the
ashes came in contact with the vines
we had tho largest crop of the finest
grapes l ever saw, the roots seemed to
run riot in the soil to distance of ten
to fifteen feet, and were mass of
fine ibcrs.